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Sometimes an art : nine essays on history / Bernard Bailyn

by Bernard Bailyn

This collection of essays explores the methodology of history and the development of the early British empire in North America. It analyses the relationship between narrative construction and incomplete data to understand how historians reconstruct past uncertainties.

Accession 24422 ISBN 9781101874479 Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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